Lemon (automobile)

As Monday piece (also pieces Monday or Monday model) herein are individual pieces or finished goods by mostly noticed several non- contiguous to each other recognizable production errors.

According to popular belief, these are about the first prepared at the beginning of the new work week specimen, in which the operations have not yet recovered their usual routine, so that the accuracy of the work suffers ( "Mon production ").

In particular, the Monday car (or the car Monday ) has been fixed in the language. Also in the Netherlands there is the Maandag copy, copy a product of inferior quality, and so too does the Maandag car. In the English -speaking world is for such cars Monday next to the word lemon ( "lemon" ), the term friday afternoon car ( " Friday Afternoon car " ) in use. This phrase corresponds to the origin of her German car Monday. Only the saying goes here assume that the workers are on Friday mentally already in the weekend and therefore sloppy work.

The Federal Court in its judgment of 23 January 2013 ( Case No. VIII ZR 140/12, quote ref 26) noted: "A new car is considered" to qualify Monday car "when the previous sequence of events from a sensible buyer vision in evaluative and prognostic observation justifies the fear that if it were a vehicle for his on production-related quality defects - especially on poor workmanship -. 's total poor based error-prone and it will be free of manufacturing-related defects in the future not for a long time "